Numenius also draws much from Plato ’ s Timaeus which presents a story of a great creator called the Demiurge who created everything in the likeness of Platonic Forms.

Apart from historical Platonism originating from thinkers such as Plato himself, Numenius, Plotinus, Augustine and Proclus, we may wish to consider the theory of abstract objects in the modern sense.

Philosopher Numenius of Apamea echoes this position in his well known statement " What is Plato but Moses speaking Attic Greek?

Numenius was a Neopythagorean, but his object was to trace the doctrines of Plato up to Pythagoras, and at the same time to show that they were not at variance with the dogmas and mysteries of the Brahmins, Jews, Magi and Egyptians.

Contrary to orthodox Judeo-Christian teaching ( and more in line with the teachings of Gnosticism ), like Orpheus and Plato Numenius wrote of the human body as a prison of the soul.

Much of Numenius ’ s interpretation of Genesis I: 2 is drawn from the philosophy of Plato ’ s forms.

Historian Kennieth Guthrie writes that " Numenius is perhaps the only recognized Greek philosopher who explicitly studied Moses, the prophets, and the life of Jesus.

According to Proclus, Numenius held that there was a kind of trinity of gods, the members of which he designated as " father ," " maker ," and " that which is made ," i. e. the world.

Before Numenius of Apamea and Plotinus ' Enneads, no Platonic works ontologically clarified the Demiurge from the allegory in Plato's Timaeus.

The idea of Demiurge was, however, addressed before Plotinus in the works of Christian writer Justin Martyr who built his understanding of the Demiurge on the works of Numenius.

* Middle Platonism under such works as Numenius express the Universe emanating from the Monad or One.

Numenius, a Greek philosopher who was a native of Apamea, in Syria, wrote during the latter half of the 2nd century AD.

The Christian saint and religious philosopher Justin Martyr ( 103 – 165 AD ) drew the same conclusion as Numenius, according to other experts.

Besides Ammonius, Plotinus was also influenced by the works of Alexander of Aphrodisias, Numenius, and various Stoics.

Alexander Numenius ( Gr. ), or ( according to the Suda ) Alexander, son of Numenius, was a Greek rhetorician who flourished in the first half of the 2nd century.

The second work traditionally attributed to Alexander Numenius, titled On Show-Speeches (), is acknowledged by virtually all critics to not be the work of this Alexander, but of a later grammarian also named Alexander ; it is, to speak more correctly, made up very clumsily from two distinct works, one of which was written by one Alexander, and the other by Menander Rhetor.

The genuine work of Alexander Numenius has also been edited, together with Minucianus and Phoebammon, by L. Normann, with a Latin translation and useful notes, Upsala, 1690, 8vo.

It may be only an accidental coincidence that about the end of the 2nd century " Archon " was one of the names given by the Platonist Harpocration to the " Second God " of Numenius ( Proclus in Tim.

Image: Bristle-thighed Curlew with chicks. jpg | Bristle-thighed Curlew ( Numenius tahitiensis, right ) and Ruddy Turnstones ( Arenaria interpres )

His treatise is really adapted from that by Alexander, son of Numenius, as is expressly stated by Julius Rufinianus, who brought out a supplementary treatise, augmented by material from other sources.

The curlews, genus Numenius, are a group of eight species of birds, characterised by long, slender, downcurved bills and mottled brown plumage.

In Europe " curlew " usually refers to one species, the Eurasian Curlew Numenius arquata.

The Late Eocene ( Montmartre Formation, some 35 mya ) fossil Limosa gypsorum of France was originally placed in Numenius and may in fact belong there.

Limosa gypsorum, then regarded as a Numenius species, was a discrepancy in this general trend.

Megasthenes, like Numenius of Apamea, was simply comparing the ideas of the different ancient cultures.

Middle and Neo-Platonists such as Numenius and Plotinus also showed some Neopythagorean influence.

The Whimbrel ( Numenius phaeopus ) is a wader in the large family Scolopacidae.

Numenius phaeopus MHNT. jpg | Egg of Whimbrel-MHNT

The final possibility is that Numenius is a Latinized form of the Greek noumenios, which was the word Diogenes Laertius used to refer to a species of curlew.

The Slender-billed Curlew ( Numenius tenuirostris ) is ( or was ) a bird in the wader family Scolopacidae.

In the 2nd century, Numenius of Apamea sought to fuse additional elements of Platonism into Neopythagoreanism, prefiguring the rise of Neoplatonism ( Iamblichus, in particular, was especially influenced by Neopythagoreanism ).

Numenius of Apamea () was a Greek philosopher, who lived in Apamea in Syria and flourished during the latter half of the 2nd century AD.

His whole objection, indeed, seems to rise out of a deep conviction that the poets do have great power to influence, but Plato seldom pays any attention to what might be called the poem itself.

Those who wanted to close the theaters, for example, pointed to Plato's Republic and those who wished to keep them open called on the Plato of the Ion to testify in their behalf.

Platonism is an ancient school of philosophy, founded by Plato ; at the beginning, this school had a physical existence at a site just outside the walls of Athens called the Academy, as well as the intellectual unity of a shared approach to philosophizing.

As universals were considered by Plato to be ideal forms, this stance is confusingly also called Platonic idealism.

In other words, the One produces what Plato called the Forms, and the Forms are understood to be the first determinations into which all things fall.

Debates concerning the nature, essence and the mode of existence of space date back to antiquity ; namely, to treatises like the Timaeus of Plato, or Socrates in his reflections on what the Greeks called khora ( i. e. " space "), or in the Physics of Aristotle ( Book IV, Delta ) in the definition of topos ( i. e. place ), or even in the later " geometrical conception of place " as " space qua extension " in the Discourse on Place ( Qawl fi al-Makan ) of the 11th century Arab polymath Alhazen.

Claudius Aelianus wrote in Miscellany () that Plato called Sappho wise.

Plato, in his dialogue Timaeus, describes a creation myth involving a being called the demiurge ( δημιουργός " craftsman ").

As envisioned by Husserl, phenomenology is a method of philosophical inquiry that rejects the rationalist bias that has dominated Western thought since Plato in favor of a method of reflective attentiveness that discloses the individual ’ s “ lived experience .” Loosely rooted in an epistemological device, with Sceptic roots, called epoché, Husserl ’ s method entails the suspension of judgment while relying on the intuitive grasp of knowledge, free of presuppositions and intellectualizing.

* Pori, also sometimes called " Plato ," is an unincorporated community in the township.

The village began as " Plato " in the 1820s, and later was called " Amherstville ", and subsequently " North Amherst ", until finally just ' Amherst '.

After a lapse during the early Roman occupation, Akademia was refounded as a new institution of some outstanding Platonists of late antiquity who called themselves " successors " ( diadochoi, but of Plato ) and presented themselves as an uninterrupted tradition reaching back to Plato.

While still in Florence, Plethon summarised his lectures in a volume titled On the Differences of Aristotle from Plato, commonly called De Differentiis.

It is probable, that, after the example of Plato, he designated the divine principium as alone indivisible, and remaining like itself ; the material, as the divisible, partaking of multiformity, and different, and that from the union of the two, or from the limitation of the unlimited by the absolute unity, he deduced number, and for that reason called the soul of the universe, like that of individual beings, a self moving number, which, by virtue of its twofold root in the same and the different, shares equally in permanence and motion, and attains to consciousness by means of the reconciliation of this opposition.

Plato called this the Great Year, and other Greeks called it an aeon or eon.

The founder of Pietism, Philipp Jakob Spener, repeatedly called attention to him and his writings, and even went so far as to compare him with Plato.

At this time, Plato called in a couple of favors and gave Franky a chain mail Greyshirt.

In philosophy, the study of knowledge is called epistemology ; the philosopher Plato famously defined knowledge as " justified true belief.

* Philo himself had been influenced by Plato ’ s Timaeus, in which Plato called the logos “ the image of God ” and “ the second God ”.

In 1877 he had published The Poetic Interpretation of Nature, in which he enters fully into the " old quarrel ," as Plato called it, between science and poetry, and traces with great clearness the ideas of nature in all the chief Hebrew, classical and English poets.

Plato did not believe in many polythiestic deities, but instead believed that there was one supreme god, whom he called the Form of the good, and which he believed was the emanation of perfection in the universe.

Plato helped to create the gap between " arithmetic ", now called number theory, and " logistic ", now called arithmetic.